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The Night Journal
by Elizabeth Crook
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Small Book Club 
We tried this book for our small club, and have thoroughly enjoyed it. Well written...good character development...a good story.
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Set aside a couple days...you will be reading this every moment you can spare!
This is an engrossing story within a story. You will be kept wondering and wanting to have all of your questions answered so that you will NOT want to stop reading until you finish! A really different story...not predictable, as many plots are. I want to read more from this author!
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Mixed feelings on this one 
An older woman, Claudia Bass, has made her mother's journals famous by publishing them - Dr. Bass is a noted historian and scholar. And she is mean as a snake...Her granddaughter, Meg Mabry, and she are at odds mostly, maybe they are too alike and don't acknowledge that in each other - Meg has refused to read the famous journals. Maybe to irritate her grandmother, maybe not wanting to know more....
When people in New Mexico start digging to construct an addition to their building, Bassie, as Claudia... more info
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History trumps romance 
There are at least two stories here. One is that of Hannah Troy Bass, who came to New Mexico in the 1890s and left a series of journals which, as edited by her daughter Claudia ("Bassie"), became famous as an authentic record of frontier life. The other is the present-day tale of the now-elderly Bassie returning to New Mexico with her thirty-something granddaughter Meg to supervise some archaeological excavations around her mother's old home. For a long time, the older story is more interesting than the... more info
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